The Book of Quinte Essence, Or, The Fifth Being: that is to Say, Man's Heaven
Author : Furnivall
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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : Furnivall
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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : Henry Littlehales
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 1895
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Author : Catholic Church
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Walter William Skeat
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Scotland
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Author : Sidney John Hervon Herrtage
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Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1881
Category : English language
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Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1882
Category : English language
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Author : Mark Haeffner
Publisher : Aeon Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2004-01-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1904658741
Alchemy is a rich and complex esoteric tradition that has flourished world-wide since the beginning of recorded history, if not earlier. There are three main traditions: Western Christian, Indo-tibetan and Chinese Taoist. Within this diversity there are many common features, which are analysed, organized, and brought together in this comprehensive dictionary of terms, symbols, and personalities. This dictionary is the distillation of many years' research into the extensive arcane literature. It is a reference work to guide the readers throught the labyrinth of pre-Newtonian science and philosophy. The dictionary covers not only the materialist dimension of the search for the elixir of life and the transmutation of metals, but also the inner search for the gold of mystical illumination. Jung called alchemy 'the projection of a drama both cosmic and spiritual in laboratorty terms'. This opus alchymicum goes beyond the bare analysis and interpretation of terms to present a harmonic, integrated vision of man and nature, which may help to heal the fragmented world view of modern science.
Author : Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 1886
Category : English language
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Author : F. J. Furnivall
Publisher : Early English Text Society
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859918060
Author : D. Vance Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022664099X
People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory—but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn’t due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, provocative book, is literature. Covering the emergence of English literature from the Old English to the late medieval periods, Arts of Dying argues that the problem of how to designate death produced a long tradition of literature about dying, which continues in the work of Heidegger, Blanchot, and Gillian Rose. Philosophy’s attempt to designate death’s impossibility is part of a literature that imagines a relationship with death, a literature that intensively and self-reflexively supposes that its very terms might solve the problem of the termination of life. A lyrical and elegiac exploration that combines medieval work on the philosophy of language with contemporary theorizing on death and dying, Arts of Dying is an important contribution to medieval studies, literary criticism, phenomenology, and continental philosophy.